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Rosemary Amponsah is training to become a welder at the Rural Enterprises Project in Bechem in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana.

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Africa's Changemakers

They’re not presidents and policymakers; they’re not rich and famous …

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Generation Unlimited

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Generation Unlimited

World leaders unite under new initiative to provide quality education and training for young people

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Asanto Mohammed, 7, attends the 1st grade class at Oda Aneso Primary School 10 April, 2014. There are 152 students in the class due to lack of classroom and teachers.

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Generation 2030: Africa

Prioritizing investments in children to reap the demographic dividend

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Precious Anastasia Ambe Lum from Cameroon speaks, answering a question during an Africa Dialogues event, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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The Africa We Want

Africa's youth are taking the stage to make their voices heard about the Africa THEY want

On 11 August 2018, a member of UNICEF’s Ebola outreach team addresses children in Ebola-hit Beni in North Kivu in The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri

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Aminetou Mint El Moctar, human rights activist (Mauritania)

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Aminetou Mint El Moctar

In Mauritania, undaunted by the fatwa issued against her, Aminetou Mint El Moctar raises taboo issues to promote women’s rights.

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